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Maybe, technically, the President still is justified in claiming he knew nothing in advance about the Watergate breakin, or of the initial cover-up efforts. The point is that those shameful tapes reveal a man totally absorbed in the cheapest and sleaziest kind of conniving to preserve appearance, and almost totally unconcerned with ethics...
...felony and bribery. Beyond crimes relating to the Watergate coverup, the President must also consider that criminal allegations could result from some or all of the ongoing investigations into his tax declarations, the ITT affair, the milk fund, the purported sale of ambassadorships, and the Ellsberg psychiatrist breakin. Moreover, there are the lesser specters of disbarment proceedings, endless appearances as a witness in the trials of others, and civil suits by various individuals who were bugged on presidential orders, or even by taxpayers challenging expenditures at San Clemente and Key Biscayne...
...aides sometimes included imaginary press reaction as part of their scenarios. On April 14, 1973, Ehrlichman sketched what he thought might be "the newsmagazine story for next Monday" if he were to present Nixon with a report naming John Mitchell and Jeb Stuart Magruder as ringleaders in the Watergate breakin. Ehrlichman suggested that the story might say: "The President then dispatched so and so to do this and that ... Charges of cover-up by the White House were materially dispelled by the diligent efforts of the President and his aides." The story obviously pleased Nixon. "I'll buy that...
When Haldeman arrives, the conversation turns to the Ellsberg breakin. For the first time, national security is mentioned as a possible defense...
June 1 7. On the second anniversary of the Watergate breakin, Ehrlichman, Colson and White House Plumbers G. Gordon Liddy, Bernard Barker, Eugenio Martinez and Felipe DeDiego are due to go on trial for conspiracy in the Ellsberg burglary...